Sean T Allen

Pony is a new language designed to make fast, concurrent programing simple. Its actor-based concurrency and advanced type system ensure programs are data race and deadlock free. We'll compare Pony to more mature technologies, starting with when yo...Read more

When we build a distributed application, how do we have confidence that our results are correct? We can test our business logic over and over but if the engine executing it isn't trustworthy, we can't trust our results. How can we build trust in o...Read more

When we build a distributed application, how do we have confidence that our results are correct? We can test our business logic over and over but if the engine executing it isn't trustworthy, we can't trust our results. How can we build trust in o...Read more

While often discussed together, monitoring and alerting serve two different needs. Monitoring can provide you information to diagnose unknown problems and study historical trends. Alerting is about what is going wrong right now that you need to fi...Read more

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Sean is a member of the Pony core team. His turn-ons include programming languages, distributed computing, Hiwatt amplifiers, and Fender Telecasters. His turn-offs include mayonnaise, stirring yogurt, and sloppy code. He is one of the authors of Storm Applied.